well im tryin to set up my springboard like this:
(made a pic cuz i cant explain things)

the more button would link to launcher so i can access all my homebrew apps.

so my question is, how can i add blank apps or spaces there so that my 'more' icon will stay to the far right?
is there a 'blank space' app (or something to that effect) that i could add to my displayorder.plist?

I just made an icon.png that was 60x90. That is tall enough to cover the text below it, but not anything else. There is an icon above my phone button for my Installer.app.

This way I can keep the clean look of my skin, and launch all my apps through launcher. If I need to run Installer, I know where the button is.

Yup, that's the same thing I do too, 5 dock icons, Launcher is #11 and Installer is #13 with my MMi icon.

Edit: As far as making 'dummy' apps, it's quite easy, create three new apps, app1.app, app2.app and app3.app. Set them in your display order, add a transparent icon.png that covers the text and your "Launcher" app will show up where you want it to. These 'dummy' apps should not even try to launch, without an Info.plist file.

Yup, that's the same thing I do too, 5 dock icons, Launcher is #11 and Installer is #13 with my MMi icon.

Edit: As far as making 'dummy' apps, it's quite easy, create three new apps, app1.app, app2.app and app3.app. Set them in your display order, add a transparent icon.png that covers the text and your "Launcher" app will show up where you want it to. These 'dummy' apps should not even try to launch, without an Info.plist file.

Except for in order to put them in your display order you need the display identifier from the info.plist for that app.... so you would have to create that as well??

Yup, that's the same thing I do too, 5 dock icons, Launcher is #11 and Installer is #13 with my MMi icon.

Edit: As far as making 'dummy' apps, it's quite easy, create three new apps, app1.app, app2.app and app3.app. Set them in your display order, add a transparent icon.png that covers the text and your "Launcher" app will show up where you want it to. These 'dummy' apps should not even try to launch, without an Info.plist file.

the dummy app idea is exactly what im looking for.
can u elaborate a bit more?

Except for in order to put them in your display order you need the display identifier from the info.plist for that app.... so you would have to create that as well??

Actually when an app is not listed in DisplayOrder.plist it shows up after your last 'known' app, in this case Preferences. So then app1, app2, and then app3. Continued below...

Originally Posted by fred777

the dummy app idea is exactly what im looking for.
can u elaborate a bit more?

i cannot get them to work

No Info.plist so they just show up. Now edit your DisplayOrder.plist file and REMOVE the entry for Launcher. This will make it follow the same rule and just show up on the desktop, after the first three apps

What happens when you install an app not in your DisplayOrder.plist file, it does just what you want.

I have a folder name dummy.app in my applications folder.
inside dummy.app i copied demoapp and renamed it dummy.

Nothing shows up this way.
Am i doing it right? Please help

edit: well i tried it with and info.plist and it showed up on the springboard.
but i can execute it, which i dont want to be able to.
i think u said it wouldnt even run if it didnt have the info.plist
im confused :-/

I have a folder name dummy.app in my applications folder.
inside dummy.app i copied demoapp and renamed it dummy.

Nothing shows up this way.
Am i doing it right? Please help

edit: well i tried it with and info.plist and it showed up on the springboard.
but i can execute it, which i dont want to be able to.
i think u said it wouldnt even run if it didnt have the info.plist
im confused :-/

Perhaps u can upload your dummy.app folder?

Sorry... Ive been trying it to and can't get ti to work... sorry..

I can get items to show up in Launcher and not execute but not on the homescreen... odd. I think you need to find an actual dummy app that won't launch

Edit: I even tried to make a shell script that did nothing but it kept freezing.

well im tryin to set up my springboard like this:
(made a pic cuz i cant explain things)

the more button would link to launcher so i can access all my homebrew apps.

so my question is, how can i add blank apps or spaces there so that my 'more' icon will stay to the far right?
is there a 'blank space' app (or something to that effect) that i could add to my displayorder.plist?

I kind of did this like this...

I used the bottom left though as my launcherapp spot. You can see the icon because the icon image is the lower part of my screen thanks to digitalkids theme. Instead of using demoapp as that icon to get the wallpaper I just used Launcher and now when I need to get to my apps that are in Launcher I just click where the red X is on the second image. Its PERFECT!!!